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from: Peter De Guchteneire
date: 1994-10-24 20:20:20
subject: Hardware-independent ?

Since 11 october a pre-release version of the OS/2 Warp 3.0 is being sold.

Does anyone know if it is now possible to write a printer-independent
program in C that uses special printer-codes like portrait/landscape etc... ?

There is no fixed C data-structure that defines settings for printing like
portrait/landscape in OS/2. (There is in Windows: DEVMODE) You have to use
a variable-length data-structure that contains different information for
different printers. Anything but printer-indepent...

The problem can be solved by creating your own printer definitions file,
but using the printer driver would be a cleaner and more logical solution.

All comments are welcomed,

Peter.

                           
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